I would insult you, but you probably have enough of that at work and home. I am not a Dem, a Dem apologist, or even slightly leftward leaning. If you can look at the wars we are engaged in, and not see that the wrong precedents and policies were instituted and followed, you are truly blind. Bush was better than Obama, but not very much. He had chances to set the policy in a manner to end these conflicts with a win. He instead chose to “build nations” even though it has never worked without first completely destroying the enemy. He will be seen in history as the architect of a greater Caliphate, not Obama. 0 will be seen as trying to bravely quell the rising tide, and with much sadness, having to withdraw. You see, Bush ran the treasury dry, and teed off the entire Muslim world.....Not my opinion, but it is close to what will be written.
“Bush was better than Obama, but not very much.”
No, Bush was worse than Obama, because Bush nearly killed conservatism in the United States. If McCain would have won the 2008 election, then conservatism would by now have been a dead letter.
Obama, unlike Bush, carries his Liberalism openly. It is possible to rally opposition against Obama, which means that the traditional American nation might not go quietly into the night. We might lose of course, but at least there is a chance of organizing an opposition before it is too late.
Bush, on the other hand, was whispering sweet nothings into the ear of America as he transformed “conservatism” into an ideology of open borders, nation-building in Islamic lands, multiculturalism, forced lending to the “disadvantaged” and of course deficit spending up the whazoo.
And of course, the primary reason that we even have a president named “Obama” in office is spelled “B-u-s-h”.